Supply Chain Excellence Leader, Charlotte - NC

IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

We currently have an exciting opportunity as Supply Chain Excellence Leader - 1 Year contract.

This role is based in our Charlotte office, and reports to the Distribution Excellence Manager.

Do not miss the opportunity to join a broad family of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!

Job purpose:

In this position, the successful candidate manages IPEX’s productivity agenda which would include identifying efficiency opportunities, facilitating kaizen and loss analysis workshops, coaching/mentoring team members on CI principles, development & optimization, automation initiative, leveraging all data sources.

The role works independently; receives minimal guidance to support the Supply chain team by creating performance dashboards and reports. which are practical, at the DC, director, and regional levels. The role will be responsible for leading, supporting, or having accountability for projects or project steps that drive performance improvement in the key metrics: Safety; Quality; Delivery; Cost; Morale; and Environment. Collaboration with other business units, such as, Finance, IT, Manufacturing, Sales and the Global Operations Teams will be critical. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

Key responsibilities:

• Create a consistent level of data analysis service to all 26 DC’s sites in North America.
• Provide data analysis support to the Director, VP, and C-Suite levels.
• Work with the IT team to use existing and/or new platforms and tools which facilitate the collection of data, creation of dashboards, and distribution of information.
• Partner with the Finance team to ensure a correlation between operational performance metrics and financial results
• Support the DC sites in the collection and communication of savings and cost out resulting from Operational Excellence initiatives.
• Identify business opportunities identified through root cause analysis of current business processes.
• Communicate recommendations regarding the resolutions of issues to the relevant internal or external parties and drive consensus on the appropriate corrective action.
• Lead internal process improvement projects and work with IT on sustainable, long-term solutions.
• Create and develop functional tools to improve performance.
• Ensure processes are well documented with regularly maintained training documentation.
• Assist with Optimization projects, such as new customer onboarding, innovation projects, and systems enhancements

Requirements

Job requirements:

• University degree or College diploma in Engineering, Supply Chain or a Business-related field
• Six Sigma – green belt is essential
• Lean training is considered an asset
• 3-5 years of experience within the Distribution industry in a data analysis role.
• Advanced skills using tools and software services, such as, Power BI, SharePoint, Minitab, etc.
• Microsoft office experience in Excel & PowerPoint.
• SAP experience is an asset.

IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at HR@ipexna.com